WordPress Tips and Tricks - WordPress SEO and Blog Marketing

After a brief Twitter discussion, the idea came about to release my short list of must have WordPress core file hacks.

Published Thursday, May 8th, 2008

An in depth look at the newest version of WordPress, 2.5.x, due to be released in March 2008 and how its changes compare to the previous 2.3.x version of WordPress.

Published Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Sometimes it’s just not feasible to have the sub (or child) pages listed within your sidebar in WordPress, especially if you have a lot of child pages. However, instead of needing to manually add each link to its parent page, you can quickly do it with a bit of PHP goodness. Using the following code […]

Published Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

A new Dreamweaver extension is designed to help WordPress theme and plugin coders breeze through their work much faster by creating a custom toolbar.

Published Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Quick tip for modifying the extended entry link when writing a post in WordPress.

Published Friday, August 17th, 2007

Use a plugin to tell your commenters how you feel about them and increase reader participation.

Published Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Tips to help you increase your blog feed subscribers.

Published Monday, June 25th, 2007

A solution for the 404 — page not found — errors that may result when placing a password protected directory alongside WordPress on your website.

Published Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

WordPress tutorial outlining how to move a current WordPress blog to a new host.

Published Friday, May 18th, 2007

An updated look at the plugins which are used to support the OptiNiche blog and make my blogging life a little easier.

Published Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

A quick and dirty fix to rid your blog of comments with invalid input in the website URL field.

Published Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

With the release of WordPress 2.1, there have been many people eager to upgrade to the newest version and some who have been intimidated by the upgrade process. To show you how you can manually upgrade your installation of WordPress, I’ve done a quick video tutorial for you.

Published Friday, February 9th, 2007

WordPress 2.1 is now available, but before you upgrade, there are a few things to keep in mind.

Published Friday, January 26th, 2007

Building affiliate sites with WordPress is completely possible due to the WordPress theming structure. Using WordPress for affiliate websites generally mean a much easier site to manage in the long run.

Published Thursday, December 7th, 2006

This short WordPress quick start guide and primer is geared towards the absolute WordPress newbie, outlining the installation process, along with theme and plugin installation.

Published Friday, July 21st, 2006

A feature of WordPress pingbacks when linking to a WordPress category.

Published Monday, July 17th, 2006

A list of websites and directories that feature WordPress themes, free or commercial, for download.

Published Monday, July 17th, 2006

The tagging versus adding categories debate seems almost perpetual. But, after careful and extended consideration, tagging combined with categories would be a more viable means of long term traffic generation and search engine optimization.

Published Monday, June 12th, 2006

Instead of asking your readership to re-subscribe to your Feed Burner feed, simply use a quick .htaccess trick to redirect them gracefully.

Published Thursday, April 13th, 2006

In this Wordpress Tutorial I will show you how to install WordPress in a different directory because, sometimes, having all the WordPress installation files in the root folder can get very disorganized.

Published Saturday, March 4th, 2006

Taking a look at the benefits and draw backs to manually installing WordPress over using the one-click installation that comes with some hosts.

Published Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

WordPress has a built in editor which allows quick editing of the WordPress files directly from the admin panel, however, it’s a good idea not to use it unless you are an advanced user.

Published Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

WordPress tutorial detailing how to use WordPress’ trackback and built in pingback feature to notify other weblogs when you reference them.

Published Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Some tips for users wanting to upgrade to the recently released WordPress 2.0, and why waiting can sometimes be a good thing.

Published Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

If spammers are so keen to exploit comments, why not exploit your own comments? Brainstorming ways to get the most out of your blog’s comments.

Published Friday, December 9th, 2005

Explanation of the WordPress Page function and a few uses for WordPress Pages.

Published Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Splogs are a problem that affects every blogger, and now the sploggers are focusing their efforts on using WordPress software forcing the innocent blogmasters to adapt.

Published Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Alter the size of your WordPress excerpt box to allow greater room for writing.

Published Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Whatever your mailing list needs, there should be a plugin that will help you. In this entry we’ll look at 4 possibilities for WordPress and managing an email list or newsletter.

Published Monday, July 25th, 2005

The WordPress loop is what controls the posts and the number of posts displayed on an the page, but sometimes you need to add content outside of it so it’s not repeated.

Published Wednesday, July 20th, 2005